[Techtalk] Re-installing GRUB, dual boot win2k

[Beth Johnson]

Can any grubbers help me out?  I hadn't been able to boot my win2k
partition since I installed Red Hat 8.0.  I really needed my embroidery
software so I double-checked my RH boot floppy then reinstalled win2k,
wiping out GRUB from the MBR.

I've heard that GRUB can boot win2k and I'd really like to have do away
with the booting from floppy, especially since there's been a kernel
upgrade that I haven't been able to boot into!

I've looked at the GRUB documentation, which is very confusing to me
with a lot of warnings in it.  Is it really as hard as they make it out
to be?  How can I get GRUB back in the MBR to handle booting to Linux or
win2k?

Here's my partition set up:
~~~~~~~
/dev/hda1	/mnt/Win	Windows 2000
/dev/hda5	/mnt/Win2	Windows 2000
/dev/hdd1	/boot
/dev/hdd2	/home
/dev/hdd5	/
~~~~~~~

Here's my grub.conf:
(yeah I have an extra kernel hanging around, the fallback for the
current kernel, which I'll get rid of once I can run the newest!)
~~~~~~~
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd1,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdd5
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-13.8)
	root (hd1,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-13.8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi
	initrd /initrd-2.4.20-13.8.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-27.8.0)
	root (hd1,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-27.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi
	initrd /initrd-2.4.18-27.8.0.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-26.8.0)
	root (hd1,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-26.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi
	initrd /initrd-2.4.18-26.8.0.img
title WIN2K
	rootnoverify (hd0,4)
	makeactive 1
	chainloader +1
~~~~~~~

TIA,
Beth
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